The Wild Hunt is another exceptional achievement and steps it up a notch compared to Watain's extremely well received previous albums. It is by far their most diverse album. While the opening instrumental Night Vision may seem to some like a perfect follow-up to Lawless Darkness' Waters Of Ain and the first album single All That May Bleed sounds like classic Watain, these eleven songs otherwise offer plenty of devilish surprises. On the one hand unmistakably Watain, this sonic and lyrical tour-de-force also explores the band's classic roots like Bathory or Dissection. With their most ambitious work to date in the wings, you could say that Watain are on the verge of becoming the biggest and most important black metal band in the world. If they weren't already. And The Wild Hunt is their crown of thorns.